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I drove in Friday night because class started early on Saturday morning and I wasn't sure where I was going. It made things much more relaxing. Friday night I met my sister and her friends (also traveling in NY that weekend, totally random!) for dinner at Guy Fieri's place. Then it was back to my comfy little hotel room to get some sleep for the morning.
In the morning I enjoyed free coffee in the hotel lobby while having a slight panic attack. I called the Crunch fitness studio, just to be sure I was going to the right place, and the guy answering the phone had no idea about a pole class going on there today. Ummmm, yes, panic.
A few more phone calls and a little help from my amazing husband back home and I was able to find out where I was going. The class was on the East side, not the West side. There are quite a few Crunch fitness studios in NY, probably should have research that small detail a little better.
The class itself started at 8AM, we started with brief introductions. All the girls were coming from different places and were in different stages of pole dancing. Some wanted the certification just to teach themselves. Others were instructors, a couple studio owners and students. The trainer, Alison, was very nice and knowledgeable. We received manuals which listed out everything we were going to learn and then got started.
We began with the "classroom stuff", the names for different grips, the CPR and first aid, the anatomy and physiology. A lot to remember with only one night to study (yes, there is a test). After that we learned how to create a beneficial warm up routine to get the blood flowing and the muscles warmed up. Then onto pole work. We learned body waves, peekaboos, pirouettes, climbs and spins. We learned how to make each move easier or more difficult and how to spot someone in each move. There was an hour break for lunch and then back to work.
That night after class I wanted to go out and see the city but instead I went straight back to the hotel, had a quick dinner and a couple drinks with one of my pole girls and then retired to my lil room. This is when I missed having a tub to soak in, OMG so sore!!! I was bruised from head to toe. And exhausted! The class took so much. And I was nervous about the test... what if after all this I didn't pass?!
I spent some time studying for my practical exam, which was teaching a two handed pirouette (something I had never even heard of before class that day). Then just crashed. The next morning was more calm, I knew where I was going and how long it would take to get there. I took a couple Ibuprofen and sat and had coffee and breakfast in the lobby while reading over my notes. Then picked up a cab and headed out for day 2.
The second day started with a one hour "master class" designed to show us how a beginner/intermediate pole class should flow. I must admit, getting on the pole that second day was tough, being already all bruised up and I kind of wish they did the harder moves on the first day, but it is what it is. We got through the whole class, put together a little routine with the moves we had learned and then did a cool down. Then on to the rest of the moves in the book. We did some floor work, handstands, move spins and climbs and of course, inversions.
By the end of day 2 I had one black and blue down the entire inside of my thigh, both feet taped up and bruises all over both arms and legs. We must have been a site. Once we completed every move in the book (and I did it! I managed to pull off every move in the book! I was soooooooooo proud!) the testing began. Each of us got up in front of the class and taught an assigned move. I was so nervous, but the friendly faces around me helped me through it. Then it was on to the written exam. It was much more intense than I had anticipated. The questions were written in a weird way, some of them were really tricky. There were a lot of anatomy questions, some I wasn't quite sure of. Not an easy test. Then the waiting came.....
Waiting is agony! Sitting their biting my nails as each girl got called up one by one to get her score. By the time she called my name part of me just wanted to run out the door. Her first words were "you passed" and then I let out the biggest sigh of relief ever. She told me I needed to amplify my voice more when teaching and showed me the correct answers to the 3 questions I got wrong (trick questions, me thinks!) then I got my certification and a tank top and I just wanted to scream with joy through the streets of New York (but I did not want to get arrested so I didn't)
Even though I felt like I had just been rolled over by a Mac truck I decided that I was happy and proud and I was going to take myself out to dinner in Times Square to celebrate. How often does one get certified to teach pole?! So I walked around Times Square for awhile (I had never been to NY City before! Can you believe that?! I live in MA and had never been!) it was a lot to take in. I ended up stumbling upon a bar / haunted house my sister had recommended called Times Scare. I sat at the bar and chatted with the bar tender for awhile when he asked what had brought me there. So I pulled out my certification and said "I just finished a certification class to become a pole instructor!" The two girls who were sitting next to me and were the only other people at the bar turned to me and said "OMG, we work at NY Dolls!" (a top of the line strip club in NY, I gather). One was a dancer and the other a massage girl. Then the bar tender gets all excited and breaks out his cell phone. When he hands it over it's full of pictures of him.... in full drag. I love NY. I had fun chatting it up with that fun-loving crew and began to make my way home.
It was a fantastic experience. I would recommend it to anyone who is teaching or wants to teach. There is so much useful information given in that course. The spotting techniques themselves are priceless. Plus being able to say "I'm a certified pole instructor" is kind of cool, yes?
If you are looking to get certified, here is a list of programs that are PFA approved:
Fawnia Mondey-Detrich
Pole Fitness Studio
PFIC Certification
Las Vegas, Nevada
Lizz Schofield
Studio Soiree
PFIC Certification
Salt Lake City, Utah
OC Pole Fitness Certification/Felix Cane
PFICP Felix Cane Inc. Certification
Aliso Viejo, California
Aryn Savaard
The Goddess Movement
The Goddess Movement Method Pole Fitness Certification
Abbotsford, BC Canada
Mariana Baum
Pole Dance Paris
Professional Formation of Pole Dance Teacher
Discover Dance
Traveling Program
Rebekah Hennes
PoleMoves Beginner/Intermediate Certification
X-Pert Pole Fitness Program
Traveling Program
Mary Ellyn Weissman
Empowerment Through Exotic Dance, Ltd.
ETEDance Beginner through Advanced Pole Dance Instructor Certification
Chicago Heights, Illinois
It is a lot of money, but worth the investment! Remember to do your research before signing up to take any certification classes.
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Charlie is featured here with his winter get-up, he gets cold and needs a coat, but this year he was really fancy about walking with his bare feet once the temperature dipped below freezing. He doesn't love getting his boots on and walks around shaking his feet for the first few minutes, but then gets going once we are outside. I never wanted to be on of 'those' pet people, but all of the gear makes walks much more fun for all of us!
So it goes without saying that I like animals and there are few great animal links I frequent, I hope you enjoy!
Maddie (and check out Maddie's book!)
If only we had more wall space for pet photos!
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Stitch a Lot, Blog a Little
Featured above is my baby friend Matilda and that quilt under her was a gift from yours truly. I had been wanting to try a mostly white design with some little scrappy bits. I was quite pleased with how it turned out, so was Tilly's Mom.
Over the course of the fall I took several upholstery classes and have some updated furniture pieces to showcase. Another special quit and some Christmas gifts were also completed, but I forgot to photo graph most of them.
More to come soon. I promise!
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Wink 2 Hub Review: A smart home hub built for the future
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If the Amazon Echo is the face of home automation, a smart home hub is the brains. It sits silently, stuffed under a couch or on a bookshelf, connecting all the smart devices around a person's home. There are a few competing hubs available, but the latest from Wink packs the most connectivity options.
This is the second Hub from Wink. Called the Hub 2, it costs $99. The changes are incremental over the original with the addition of an Ethernet port and several wireless protocols to increase compatibility with more smart home devices. The new version is also slightly thinner and better looking. The company increased the internal memory and added encryption to ensure your lightbulbs aren't hacked.
In testing I found the Wink Hub 2 to work perfectly fine. Compatible devices connect without issue and when used in combination with an Amazon Echo or the Wink app, controlling these devices are easy.
The company updated its app shortly prior to releasing this new hub. The changes are fantastic. The app was never horrible, but this new version improves the user interface dramatically. It's now much easier to control devices and set up actions.
Installing the Hub 2 is simple. Connect it to power and follow the prompts on the app. Like the original, it's possible to connect the device to a wireless network. Unlike the first Wink Hub though, the Wink App automatically finds the hub, making adding it to the local network a few steps shorter.
The Hub 2 is compatible with 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. However, even when connecting the Hub 2 to a wired network, I couldn't discern any difference in response time between the Hub 1 and Hub 2. It still took just a moment for the Wink hub to turn on my Philips Hue lights just like the original. Its selling point comes in added connectivity. This new model operates just like the original, and that's for the best. I can't tell any difference in operation from the old model. The changes are on the inside.
The new model is ready for the next generation of wireless protocols. Out of the box it supports Bluetooth LE and has a wireless radio compatible with Nest's wireless Internet of Things standard, Thread. This is in addition to wireless systems built into the original Wink hub: Kiddel, Lutron Clear Connect, Wi-fi, Z-Wave and ZigBee.
With the addition of these two wireless protocols, homeowners should find the Wink 2 works with more items. And that's a great thing.
The Internet of Things ecosystem is a smattering of devices and networks and compatibility is an issue. Most items will work with Wink and top competitor, SmartThings, but somethings will not. Sometimes, a Z Wave device will only work with one system — and of course It's never the one you own. This isn't any particular system's fault. It seems most companies building IoT hubs are adding device support as fast as it can.
At least, when picking up the new Wink Hub 2, buyers know that it supports most older smart home devices and should support most in the future, too.
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Per our recent story, the City's implementation of its Manchester neighborhood plan from 1996 has been an abysmal failure. But there are two differing schools of thought here. The two competing arguments go something like this:
Get Moving! Stop paying for plan after plan with no action for 20+ years. Get this sh*t rolling. Implement the good ideas from the various plans. START NOW, STAT!
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MMOs 8 Billion in revenues worldwide by 2014
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Things are looking bright for the MMO industry, this according to the Strategy Analytics. By the year 2014. they could just bag a whopping US$ 8 billion in revenue worldwide.
That doesn't seem too farfetched too, considering that as of 2009, it's already gone past the US$ 5 billion mark. Blizzard is deemed responsible for "the slowly growing US and European markets".
Said Martin Olausson, Strategy Analytics firm director, "Faced with fierce competition from social games and console video games, MMORPG in the Western market has already shown signs of a slowdown. The traditional subscription model that most western MMORPGs adopt has lost traction and growth momentum."
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The DTRA's J9 Nuclear Technologies Directorate and the Nuclear Arms Control and Technology (NACT) Research Development, Testing and Evaluation (RDT&E) Program have the goal of improving the reliability and verification capability of U.S. waveform and radionuclide nuclear detonation detection stations. The detectors are part of the International Monitoring System (IMS), which is part of the CTBT's verification regime.
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Pope Hyginus was the Bishop of Rome from c. 138 to c. 142. Tradition holds that during his papacy he determined the various prerogatives of the clergy and defined the grades of the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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Every year, the Queen hands out awards to the most esteemed citizens of the British Empire called — appropriately — the New Year's Honors. Among this year's winners are a few of our favorite Brits, including: Anna Wintour of Vogue, Victoria Beckham of Posh Spice and her own fashion label, Ray Davies of the band the Kinks, opera singer Bryn Terfel, runner Mo Farah, actor Mark Rylance and tennis player extraordinaire Andy Murray.
There are various levels of honors that people can receive from the New Year's Honors. The most prestigious are knighthoods and damehoods, which Wintour, Farah, Davies, Terfel and Murray all received. Those honors are followed by CBE (Commander of the British Empire), OBE (Officer of the British Empire) and MBE (Member of the British Empire).
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Dr Panda's Home (best Android apps for kids)
Little kids just love to play pretend. It is a great way for children to learn life skills from a very young age. Often parents will buy miniature or play versions of real items they use themselves such as phones, tools, cash registers and even vacuum cleaners (which really should suck up dirt!). Dr Panda's Home is another way children can practice being a big person. From loading the dishwasher to cleaning the toilet, from putting away the shopping to having breakfast and getting dressed, your child will have fun while learning about what it takes to run a household.
Cynthia reviewed this app recently over at Smart Apps For Kids and give it four stars. This was her Bottom Line: A cute little app for toddlers who want to experience all of the joys of housekeeping, just like us grown-ups, only with cute animals and lots of twinkling accomplishments. I might be jealous.
My daughter really loves the Dr Panda apps and I know she is going to get a kick out of this one. She is at the toilet fascination stage and will be flushing the germs away as often as the game lets her. My older kids have gone beyond the novelty phase of cleaning the toilet, unfortunately. They do still respond to checklists though, and that is another great addition to this app. Each of the chores is listed on a checklist (of three items at a time), which the child must complete in order to earn some pocket money for the piggy bank. Organization skills and goal setting skills can never be learnt too early.
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In Dr. Panda's Home, there are four stories of fun to explore. You can take charge and help these animals complete their to-do lists, getting familiar with all sorts of household chores while having fun and learning responsibility. You'll take care of everything from hanging laundry, to mopping floors, to making breakfast with these adorably animated animals. As you do chores and tasks you'll earn coins to put in your piggy bank, which you can use to buy fun in-game items: From saxophones to rocket ships! And don't forget to feed and take care of the cute rabbits living right outside Dr. Panda's front door!
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New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML), a defence public sector undertaking, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the country's largest steel producer Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for supply of earthmoving equipment and spares. "Both public sector units have agreed to work on a 11-year term during which BEML shall supply equipment up to 2011 to SAIL. BEML will also undertake maintenance and repair contract for the next eight years," an official statement said Monday.
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Canine flu is fatal in approximately 10 percent of infected dogs. Additionally, if left untreated, complications such as pneumonia can develop. It cannot be spread to humans, though humans can unwittingly spread the virus by handling contaminated items such as food and water bowls. Cats can also be infected with canine flu.
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When I was a kid, I loved reading these books called "Choose Your Own Adventure" where every twenty or so pages, me, the young reader could decide which direction the story went by choosing an option, always creating amazing journey's for me to embark on. Well, Netflix had gone and done something similar by putting kids in the director's chair with their new Interactive Storytelling.
My family and I had the wonderful opportunity to head to Vancouver on the weekend for the Interactive Storytelling Event hosted by Netflix to see what this optional movie watching was all about. Man, I was so excited.
A big kiss to Netflix for inviting us by the way. I hadn't been to Vancouver in almost a year, and man it was beautiful. The sun was shining and my eleven year old son was in his glory seeing the city busses on electric cables and fast luxurious cars speed through the city streets of Yaletown.
The Event was being held at the Opus Hotel Vancouver . If you need a place to stay, this hotel is beautiful. I got to see one of the rooms, very nice. No, I'm not endorsed to say this either. I just liked how the Hotel looked, very trendy and yet backpackers were comfortable there. The staff was friendly and it was busy for a smaller hotel located on Davie Street.
As soon as we got off the elevator we were greeted by our Netflix Team with smiles. Of course, they had the whole room planned for the kids with yummy drinks, sugary treats, popcorn and crafts so the kids could make stuff while we waited for the show to start and to learn more about this new and innovative form of entertainment from Netflix.
Trace sat back and relaxed while waiting. He made some friends, and some friends from other blogging moms he already knew and had met before. That's the great thing about blogging. You can spend so much time online chatting with someone and then hug them at a thing like this as though you are family.
Interactive Storytelling Watch & Learn
I went live on FB to share the event and what Interactive Storytelling is about. So basically the show starts and during the show the kids get to make choices on which direction the story will go. The cool thing I love about this is engagement. Kids aren't just watching and being slugs on the couch. They are watching and having to decide, basically being the director of the movie.
Why I think Interactive Storytelling from Netflix Rocks!
- Gets kids interested more in what they are watching
- Allows them to make choices on the story-line
- They can go back and choose another direction changing the outcome
- Multiple endings and story plot ideas.
- Fun for the whole family.
- Parents don't have to watch the same episodes over and over.
Kids right now can enjoy Interactive Storytelling on Netflix with Puss and Boots Trapped In An Epic Tale . Just use your remote to make decisions, and more episodes and shows are in the works for everyone to enjoy!
After we watched Puss go on his amazing adventures, we were treated to a brunch which was so yummy! I got to walk around, chat with other fellow bloggers, and chat with our amazing Stream Team Crew that help us bring you guys all the latest and greatest Netflix has to offer.
All in all I thing this is a wonderful step up for Netflix. I think it's utterly cool that kids can choose which direction the story they are watching will go. If they don't choose the choice is done for them, but they can always go back and make a different decision. I love that this helps kids engage with what they are watching and in a way allows them to guess what will happen. Way to go Netflix!
For those you who don't have Netflix but would love to share this Interactive Storytelling with your kids or know someone who needs Netflix. Head on over to my Facebook Page as I have a giveaway running for a 3 month subscription. Who knows maybe you might win!


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So...I'm going to start this off by saying my Mother is not going to like reading any of this. Sorry.
Last week in my writing class one of my friends asked if I'm a "gold digger" because of the age of some of the guys I've dated. Unfortunately, I am not. I've also been accused of being very high maintenance. Really? I have never asked a guy for anything I couldn't get for myself. That accusation was made by all the younger guys I've dated. I don't think that paying for my meal on a date is really that high maintenance...and neither do older dudes!
I do understand why my girlfriends (and my Mom) think it is weird that I like the older man. For me, teaching a 20 something about manners, movies, music, literature and basic hygiene is not fun anymore. (Is needing all of those things in a man considered high maintenance?) I've done it more than once and the novelty is gone. "Oh but there are boys your age that like the same things as you." Oh yea? I just spent almost a grand at a film festival for "people like me" and I will tell you, no there are not. But there are a lot of 40 and 50 year olds that do! I would rather learn something from someone than have to consistently tell someone what old movie 'Family Guy' is referencing and why it's funny. Older men have better taste in most things and, like me, enjoy napping. And, older guys like imparting their wisdom/advice, it makes them feel important. When a 24 year old tries to do that, it's a freakin' joke.
I went out for my friend Heather's birthday last night and a guy there was asking me what kind of guys I'm into because I was not into the douchebaggery that was at this bar. (Please note that his girlfriend was with him so I think it was just conversation.) I told him older men and he said, "Oh, like Tom Selleck." Then I threw up in my mouth.
Not because I think Tom Selleck is gross, I think he's gross because my Mom thinks he's super hot, so that's NOT hot.
Stop looking at me Tom, you're not my kind of hairy.
Alright. Now everyone's uncomfortable, except for me!
I found a very good theme song for this post, sung by a Mr. Tom Jones. I was never into him, mostly because he was like the Patron Saint of Carlton from 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air,' so I thought he was kinda geeky. I was wrong. He was sort of hot back in the day and his voice is all gravely, just how I like it.
Awwww yeah!
I like that he says "Holy Schmoly." Hilarious


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the shadow of money14 May 2009
recommended daily allowance14 May 2009
This Bill Moyers interview with Simon Johnson and Michael Perino about the Pecora Commission and its relevance for today is very very good, and anyone interested in the financial crisis who also has the slightest bit of interest in history should check it out. (A transcript is helpfully provided for those who don't want to sit through an hour.)
At one point Johnson and Perino got into a bit of a disagreement over whether financial products should be labled like food products:
SIMON JOHNSON: Let me put it this way, Bill, 150 years ago, I could have stood outside your studio on the street of New York and sold anything in a bottle and called it a medicine, okay? Quack medicine is what it was called. And it could have been, you know, good for you or bad offer you or it could have killed you. And it would– I could have done it. I would have done it, right? People did it.
Now that's illegal. You go to prison. There are serious criminal penalties for selling things that you claim are medicine that are– that are not medicine. And obviously we argue even about very fine distinctions of how good is this for you under what circumstances? The same transformation will take place, I am sure, over the next 150 years for financial products. I'd like to bring it forward a little bit and have it happen in the next couple of years.
MICHAEL PERINO: I'm not–
SIMON JOHNSON: I think that change of view of, you know, to what extent can the consumer decide for himself or herself, to what extent do you need protection, guidance, very strong labels on products? I think that we've changed many ways we think about things as we modernized our economy looking over the past century. But the financial products, not so much.
MICHAEL PERINO: If you look back at the history, the first securities regulations were not federal regulation but state regulation. They were called the "blue sky laws." And the "blue sky laws" were exactly the model you're talking about. The "blue sky laws" were what were called merit regulation. And the idea behind merit regulation is that there will be a state regulator who will look at the quality of these securities and will determine whether they are appropriate or not to sell to investors in that state.
It's a model that federal securities regulation rejected because the view was, you know, do we really want to be in a position where some bureaucrat is deciding what's an appropriate risk for an investor to take? Or are we better off with the progressive model, a model that Brandeis wrote about in his famous book called "Other People's Money" where he says, No, we don't need to be regulating the substance of this. What we need to rely on, in his phrase, is sunlight, electric light, he says, is the best policeman.
It's too bad that Johnson didn't point out that Perino, who's doing a biography of Pecora and presumably has gotten into the relevant history – Other People's Money was reprinted around the time of the Pecora hearings and first came out in 1913-4 following a similar, but less famous, set of hearings on banking conducted by the Pujo Committee in 1912 – apparently missed the part later in the same chapter that the "sunlight" quote is drawn from where Brandeis wrote (under "Publicity as a Remedy"):
Now the law should not undertake (except incidentally in connection with railroads and public-service corporations) to fix bankers' profits. And it should not seek to prevent investors from making bad bargains. But it is now recognized in the simplest merchandising, that there should be full disclosures. The archaic doctrine of caveat emptor is vanishing. The law has begun to require publicity in aid of fair dealing. The Federal Pure Food Law does not guarantee quality or prices; but it helps the buyer to judge of quality by requiring disclosure of ingredients. Among the most important facts to be learned for determining the real value of a security is the amount of water it contains. And any excessive amount paid to the banker for marketing a security is water. Require a full disclosure to the investor of the amount of commissions and profits paid; and not only will investors be put on their guard, but bankers' compensation will tend to adjust itself automatically to what is fair and reasonable. Excessive commissions—this form of unjustly acquired wealth—will in large part cease.
In other words, the clock has already been running for nearly a century on the effort to label financial products. The question isn't whether we'll get it in a few years or in a century; it's whether it will take another century.
markets just keep emerging31 March 2009
From that much-recommended Simon Johnson article on the financial crisis:
The great wealth that the financial sector created and concentrated gave bankers enormous political weight—a weight not seen in the U.S. since the era of J.P. Morgan (the man). In that period, the banking panic of 1907 could be stopped only by coordination among private-sector bankers: no government entity was able to offer an effective response. But that first age of banking oligarchs came to an end with the passage of significant banking regulation in response to the Great Depression; the reemergence of an American financial oligarchy is quite recent.
It just so happens that I've been digging around a bit in the 1900s (the "aughts", I guess). Here's how Michael McGerr describes the events of 1907 in A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, pages 178-180. I've decided to quote extensively more than paraphrase since McGerr lays it out quite nicely and the details are important:
In October, a worldwide shortage of credit mercilessly exposed the limitations of the nation's banking and currency systems. A collapse of copper prices raised fears about banks and trust companies heavily involved in the mining industry. On October 22, frightened depositors made a run on the Knickerbocker Trust Company, which had extensive involvement with copper: the company closed the next day. The terror spread… As the banks and trust companies of New York struggled to meet their obligations, the whole banking system of the country seemed suddenly in peril. Morgan, Stillman, and the rest of the great money men labored to hold things together. John D. Rockefeller publicly pledged half his possessions to the cause. With millions of Rockefeller's dollars on deposit, the National City Bank played a key role in the crisis. "They always come to Uncle John when there is trouble," Rockefeller bragged. Even so, the federal government had to step in. Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury, George Cortelyou, provided the banks with $37 million and then $31 million. Still the run continued; the banks stopped payments to depositors….
As the Panic entered a second week and the Trust Company of America became the focus of worry, Roosevelt was drawn into a dubious deal. The money to save the company would have to come from the financial markets, but they were supposedly jeopardized by the weakness of Moore and Schley, a firm of underwriters. The fate of Moore and Schley, in turn, depended on the sale of its shares in the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. With money from those shares, Moore and Schley would survive, the stock market would stay high, and firms could then afford to put up the money to save the Trust Company of America. But who would buy the shares in Tennessee Coal and Iron? United States Steel was willing–if the government would agree not to take the acquisition to court under the Sherman Act. The leaders of the steel corporation, Elbridge Gary and Henry Clay Frick, met with the President on November 4 to explain the firm's noble proposal. They did not dwell on the fact that this bargain-basement acquisition would give United States Steel a powerful hold on the Southern market. Roosevelt indicated he had no objection to the deal, which promptly went forward.
Through November, the government sold bonds to banks on easy terms; thus fortified, the banks rode out the Panic. Confidence returned, the credit shortage diminished, workers kept their jobs–the country seemed fine. Nevertheless, the Panic of 1907 had changed things.
McGerr goes on to point out that while the financiers had found themselves in a weak position, forced to turn to the federal government for help, the resolution of the crisis demonstrated their continuing strength:
The government had had no choice but to help the "financial captains." Roosevelt had accepted the Tennessee Coal and Iron deal. In November, Elbridge Gary began to bring together the leaders of the steel industry to discuss matters of common concern; Washington tolerated these "Gary dinners," an open display of anticompetitive collusion. Further, the great industrial firms showed real strength in the uncertain economic climate. Instead of renewing the price-cutting wars of the 1890s, U.S. Steel and other companies maintained their prices after the Panic.
Roosevelt, McGerr writes, responded to the crisis by calling for more regulation, including allowing the federal government to examine corporations' books and giving the Interstate Commerce Commission the power "to regulate issues of railroad securities, to determine the physical value of railway lines, and even to set railway rates." None of that happened during his presidency:
Instead, he found himself trapped in an argument about responsibility for the Panic. Opponents claimed that the administration's program in general and the judgment against Standard Oil in particular had precipitated the crisis. "The runaway policy of the present Administration can have but one result," John D. Rockefeller told a reporter. "It means disaster to the country, financial depression, and chaos." Even Americans receptive to antitrust and regulation wondered whether too much government interference inhibited economic growth.
the emerging merger movement23 March 2009
Yglesias writes:
My biggest concern about the PPIP approach to the banking system is that even if it works, what it does essentially is return us to the pre-crisis status quo—banks that are so large that they're too politically powerful to regulate effective and too systemically important to be allowed to fail.
Actually, we'd be entering a system even more concentrated than the pre-crisis status quo. Bank of America would have Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo would have Wachovia, and JPMorganChase would have Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual (potentially becoming JPMorganChaseBearStearnsWaMu, for short). And that might not be all. Last fall Joe Nocera listened in on a JPMorganChase conference call in which one of the executives addressed the $25 billion in federal funds forced upon given them by the government, saying
"Twenty-five billion dollars is obviously going to help the folks who are struggling more than Chase," he began. "What we do think it will help us do is perhaps be a little bit more active on the acquisition side or opportunistic side for some banks who are still struggling. And I would not assume that we are done on the acquisition side just because of the Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns mergers. I think there are going to be some great opportunities for us to grow in this environment, and I think we have an opportunity to use that $25 billion in that way and obviously depending on whether recession turns into depression or what happens in the future, you know, we have that as a backstop."
Things have probably reached the point where any more large acquisitions have become politically unfeasible, but it's something to keep an eye on. Banks, like houses, might not come this cheaply again for a long time – if you can manage it (perhaps with the government aid).
in the long run, we are all relieved of our tax burdens6 February 2009
…but, apparently, not of our credit card obligations. Or so Bank of America would have you believe.
arduous days ahead5 February 2009
While reading FDR's first inaugural recently, I was struck by just how forceful it is. Most of the time when I see quotes from FDR's speeches they're statements about specific events: "date that will live in infamy"; universal statements: "only thing to fear is fear itself," or the four freedoms; or evocative descriptions of the conditions of the Depression: "one third of a nation." But I rarely see people bring up statements like the following, from just after the "fear itself" quote:
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
This isn't FDR at his most left or populist or radical or progressive or whatever the term should be – especially not when compared with his 1936 speech at Madison Square Garden (familiar quote: "For twelve years this Nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing Government").* But of course Roosevelt, under pressure from groups on the left, from people like Huey Long, and from the effect of slowly improving but still difficult economic conditions shifted leftward from 1932 to 1936. (At least I think that's still the current accepted interpretation.)
What's surprising is how left (or whatever) he already was – at least that's how it appears to me, reading him today – when he was sworn in. I suppose that's a sign both of how dire the emergency then was, and also of how much the political spectrum has shifted the other way in more recent years.
*However, near the end of the 1933 inaugural he does say:
But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis—broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.
Which is pretty ominous-sounding, and though a dramatic increase in executive power isn't clearly a right or left shift – it depends on what's done with the power – it certainly is radical.


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We both met Lauren at Crunch Wayne where she started off personal training with Bridget. Laurens grace and elegance is something we admire most. As a dancer she brings a tremendous amount of body awareness to the table, something we all admire and have learned from. After every workout Lauren stays after to work on her weakness and has recently made those some of her strengths. Her determination and will power is infectious. Laurens smile brightens the room and her pointed right toe and extended hands overhead like a ballerina before every handstand pushup and rope climb make each day just that much better.
1. How did you get started with CrossFit? Bridget was my personal trainer at my local gym. When she and Jacq opened up their box, I knew I wanted to be part of it!
2.How many WOD's per week do you attend? 4-5
3. What is you favorite movement? Handstand push-ups, back squats, clean and jerks
4. What is your least favorite movement? Wall balls, overhead squats
5.What would you tell a newbie getting started that helped you? There will be days where you will feel really off your game. Maybe the WOD is particularly challenging for you, the movements aren't coming naturally or it's taking you forever to finish a WOD that your peers finished in half the time. My best advice is to not take it so seriously or take it to heart - just keep pushing yourself that much harder, stay consistent with your routine and the results will inevitably follow.
6. What would you like to accomplish In the next 3 months? I'd like to be able to erase all of my old goals off the board (rope climb, unassisted pull-ups) and set some new goals! In particular, I'd like to be able to throw around more weight (PRing my cleans would be a good place to start) and RXing more workouts!
Andrew walked in one day and told us his curent workouts just weren't doing it for him. After the warmup he was huffing and puffing but we reassured him he would love it! You can see all the thoughts running through his head with each lift and then he looks at us to see "was that right?". Andrew doesnt give himself even a oucnce of credit that he deserves. He has transformed into a true CrossFitter with smooth movements and better endurance with each WOD. We enjoy wathcing him get so much better each workout and become a role model for others in the box. We are excited and privileged to watch you get stronger.
1. How did you get started with CrossFit? Some friends who crossfit told me about it. At first I thought "just another fad..." but after seeing their physical results and doing some of my own research online I was convinced.
2. How many WOD's per week do you attend? I generally shoot for 3-4, but there are WOD's that call for a bit more recovery time for me.. (like this past Wednesday).. :)
3. Favorite CrossFit exercise?
Wall balls
It's hard and it hurts but its also rewarding; not just physically.. I feel a sense of accomplishment and confidence when I finish a WOD successfully. A job well done; its worth it.
6. What would you like to accomplish in the next 3 months?
Id like to get to the point where im RXing my WOD's and maintaining my form throughout.


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A few of my friends are comfortable using their DSLRs in Auto or Program mode, but they're intimidated by Aperture Priority and other shooting options on their complex cameras. In this post, I'd like to send them a message: You have permission to shoot in Auto or Program for 80% of the images you capture. Program mode is preferable when you want to change the flash settings or the ISO, but in either of these modes, the camera will do a good job of selecting aperture and shutter speed settings that work well in most lighting situations.
But sometimes you have a vision for the photograph that the camera's processor can't discern. Perhaps you want a shallow depth of field to enhance a portrait, or you want to freeze the action in a sports scene. For these situations, I'd like to help you overcome your anxiety by offering the simplest explanation I can produce.
I'll begin by reminding you of an obvious analogy between your camera and the human eye. Because of the complex physiology of the eye, this analogy is limited, but I think it's useful here if we don't go too far. Think of your pupil as an aperture that controls the amount of light (per second) that is focused by your lenses onto your retina (the sensor). Your eyelid acts as a shutter; when it's closed, no light can enter; when you blink quickly, you simulate a fast shutter speed. It should be intuitive that you will need a wide aperture at low light levels -- and maybe a slow blink.
I don't think it's intuitive that a wide open aperture leads to a shallow depth of field and that a small aperture provides a large depth of field; let's just stipulate that for our purposes. So for that portrait effect you're seeking, set your camera to Aperture Priority and select a setting like f/2.8 or f/3.5 or even f/4. Set your ISO at 200 or 250 on a bright day or 400 or 800 or 1600 if the light is dim. In Aperture Priority, your camera will select the shutter speed necessary to give you a good exposure. (For simplicity, let's save Shutter Priority for another day.)
To get a feel for the relationships among aperture, focal length, and distance of the subject, try playing with a depth of field calculator. I just downloaded an app, Depth of Field & Exposure Calculator, that shows me that if I'm photographing a friend at a distance of ten feet with a 105 mm lens at f/2.8, the depth of field will be less than six inches. If I focus sharply on my subject's eyes, I should be able to keep her whole head in focus, but just barely. The depth of field is the range over which an acceptably sharp image will be produced. Try pressing the preview button on your camera just before taking the picture. This will allow you to look through the lens at the pre-selected aperture so you can see the depth of field you're going to get.
We've glossed over a few technical terms that must be dealt with, however briefly, to ensure your aperture anxiety does not recur. The focal length of your lens is the distance over which a collimated beam of light is brought to a focal point. You're familiar with this because you used to play with a magnifying glass to burn holes in paper. When we say that the aperture of a lens is set to f/4, we mean that the ratio of the focal length to aperture diameter is 4. Now that I've said that, you can stop worrying about it. The only thing you have to remember is that there is an inverse relationship between aperture diameter and f-stop. f/16 denotes a smaller effective aperture (or entrance pupil) than f/4.
There's a story about Arthur Fellig, a great New York street photographer of the 30s and 40s, whose pseudonym was "Weegie." He was usually the first press photographer on the scene of a grisly crime scene and his stark black and white images were almost always technically good. When asked about his successful technique, he said "f/8 and be there."
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Gymnastics is the most difficult sport in the world for men and women
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Gymnastics is an all-around sport not concentrating on just one specific area of the body. Not only does it prepare the physical body for impacts on metal bars and hard mats but prepare the mind to think in areas of under 1 second.
First I would like to look at the balance of the gymnasts. In women's gymnastics an event is about the same width as the white sideline of a basketball court. This event was specifically made for balance, hence the name of the balance beam. The center of balance in a woman is lower in the body near the hips while the center of balance in a man is higher up near the chest. During the routine the gymnast can rotate up to 600 degrees per second. this means you traveling 45 feet per second which is basically traveling almost half a basketball field in a few seconds without deviating from the white sidelines of the field.
The second part of gymnastics I would like to look at is spatial awareness. If you've ever watched gymnastics, which you should if you haven't, you notice that they can travel very high in a short time. Doing some of the basic swings on a men's high bar adds 9 times the normal weight of your body on your shoulders. this much weight allows the bar to bend and act like sling shot and launch you upwards. If you don't already know gravity pulls you down at around 9.8 m/s/s not leaving much time to "find" the bar, because of this a gymnast needs to know exactly where they are and how far/long they have to catch the bar. Not only on the high bar but also the vault, an average gymnast can propel themselves at least 10-13 feet above the floor. not to mention spinning exceptionally fast they need to be able to identify how high they are so they can land on their feet, or if they miss at least they can land safer than landing on their head.
Finally I would like to look at the possibility of loss of skills. If you take a month off of playing a sport such as football or soccer you may be a little tired or a little sloppy but it takes a few minutes to refine everything again unlike in gymnastics where if you miss a month of practice you can lose lots of skills which take a long time to get back because you need to regain the strength and the technique of the skill making gymnastics one of the hardest sports in the world.
Even thirty seconds can be a deceiving. Try punching with all-out speed and power on a heavy bag for a thirty second sprint and you"ll know what I am talking about. Add in the variable of someone punching you while you"re trying to punch and you"ll understand why boxing is the most difficult sport.
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In its analysis, ESPN took ten different athletic categories and ranked each category with a scale of zero to a hundred in degree of difficulty. The categories included every imaginable facet of athleticism from speed and power to hand-eye coordination. The aforementioned golf scored a respectable and understandable 6.38 on analytic aptitude, but a paltry 1.63 in the speed category. The big three were all in the top ten of the toughest sports - football at third, basketball at fourth, and baseball at ninth.
But boxing took the cake with high scores across the board. From power to durability, boxing is one tough sport according to the experts. However, it isn"t just the typical athletic variables that make boxing hard. Yes, it takes incredible endurance and strength to box, but more than anything, it takes nerve. According to ESPN, this was boxing"s most pronounced athletic category - nerve, or the ability to overcome fear. When it comes to nerve, boxing scored an 8.88 average, among the top four of all sports.
Fear and the Ability to Face It
There are a lot of tough sports out there. Golf seems so hard that I have wanted to break every club in my bag while on the course. I remember football practices back in the day that made me want to throw up. Wrestling is as rigorous as it gets in terms of its grueling conditioning.
Still, the sheer mental and physical exhaustion in a boxing ring is indescribable, even at the amateur level. It"s not just physical exhaustion, but also the mental concentration required in boxing. It"s the willingness to confront not only your opponent, but also your own fear. That reason, fear, as ESPN indirectly pointed out, is the reason more than any other that boxing is the most difficult sport. Nothing drains you and creates exhaustion like fear.
Fear occurs in many sports. Skiing and surfing can be dangerous, but the mountain and ocean are not trying to destroy you on purpose. In football, a knockout may be a byproduct, but it isn"t the goal. In boxing, your opponent has one objective - to hurt you. This makes boxing intoxicating, brutal, and barbaric, as well as one damn tough sport.
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Boxing ain't for the faint of heart. Having coached boxing, I can tell you that boxing is not for most people. The only way to box with any proficiency is to face this fear - the fear of getting hit, hurt, or worse. Still, facing fear is why I love the sport so much. It is a metaphor for life. We all take hits and learning how to take them and fight back is a lesson we encounter in life many, many times.
The Hardest Skill to Master, in Sport and Life
As for which sport produces the best athletes, the debate rages on. I still think the big three are hard to beat on overall athletic ability. But an elite-level athlete in one of those sports does not necessarily translate to an elite boxer.
USA Boxing was so desperate for talent in preparation for the last Olympic games that they chose former college football quarterback Dominic Breazeale to represent Team USA in the super heavyweight division. The experiment failed as Breazeale lost in the first round of the Olympics. A great athlete doesn"t necessarily make a great boxer and vice versa.
Ultimately, boxing is an incredible display of many athletic variables. Really though, boxing is about that ability to measure nerve or fear. That is the hardest skill to master in both sport and life. To ride the wave effortlessly with the knowledge that wave could potentially kill you is the most mysterious and intriguing athletic variable in any sport.
Boxing is full of this intrigue, mystery, and raw competition. Boxing is also dangerous and detrimental to your health. Despite its flaws, boxing is the pinnacle when it comes to the true test of difficulty in athletic skill. This is why fighters fight for one word more than any other - respect.
Some of the greatest fears of gymnast is, of course, dying on the equipment. Their have been many incidents where equipment, from the gym and from the gymnast, that have malfunctioned and resulted in permanent injuries or worse. I have seen incidents of grip lock, this occurs when the dowel of your grips get locked on the bottom part of your buckle or Velcro hold, and shattered an arm on the high bar making it impossible for this child to rejoin gymnastics and crippled him for life.
Facing your fears is not only faced in boxing, 2 years before the 2012 Olympics John Orozco injured his knee and was out for two months and yet still competed in the world gymnastics competition America VS. the world. He along with Paul Reggeri were two of the most important people on the team AND competed in the Olympics placing 2nd-All-Around, High Bar; 3rd-Pommel Horse, Still Rings, Parallel Bars; 4th-Floor eXercise; 6th-VaulT(T).
Respect is also something that not only boxers fight for. Respect is a universal goal that all people fight for even if they know it or not. Respect can be fought for in many ways whether it's punching someone or using a speech to tell a dream you have for your country or children.
If fear is the only thing that a your fighters have to worry about then gymnastics already has them beat in that aspect. Gymnast must not only overcome the fear of messing up and landing wrong or worse but they also have to process where they are in space again referring back to my first argument of spatial awareness. Without the strong mind of a gymnast and the processing power of their seasoned brains in spatial awareness they would fall and more dangerously than not if they had not trained their minds to be "quick on their feet".
And again boxers are outmatched in a physical aspect as well entirely because they focus explicitly on their arms which leaves them relatively weaker on the lower parts of their bodies where as a gymnast must work every part of their body so that they can perform the best way possible because most to all events require the same amount of upper body and lower body strength plus they work on all parts of their body so they don't look like a wine glass.
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Posted by FuckleBerryJuJu 2 years ago
Try to golf, without being brought up golfing. I know extremely athletic people who have been trying to learn how to skate for years. Every sport has it's own degree of difficulty, in terms of all around skills maybe gymnastics is the most demanding, but I guarantee if you take identical twins who have never played any sports in their life and tried to have one learn gymnastics and one learn how to golf, the one learning gymnastics will be more successful and a lot quicker as well.
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Posted by PointyDelta 2 years ago
You do need to define 'hardest'
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